Center for Innovative Hospitality Labor and Employment Relations
News, updates, and insights about the modernization of hospitality industry labor and management relations.

CIHLER welcomes Gretta Brooks to industry advisory board
The Cornell Center for Innovative Hospitality Labor and Employment Relations welcomes hospitality sales training expert Gretta Brooks, founder and CEO of SalesBoost.

New center improves employment relations in hospitality
CIHLER, formerly an institute, has become a center—now equally shared with the ILR School. It provides a collaborative space for dialogue on labor relations in the hospitality industry.

Research Recap: Legal analysis proposes new standards in the age of “Me Too”
David Sherwyn and Paul Wagner discuss what constitutes sexual harassment, identify the problems, and propose a solution that could eradicate, or at least mitigate, the reason for the Me Too movement.

Hospitality panel discusses sexual harassment, brand evolution
The School of Hotel Administration presented its first Cornell Hospitality Thought Leadership Event focused on sexual harassment and brand evolution.

Roundtable discusses Trump, automation, and Airbnb
Cornell undergraduate students had the opportunity to interact with leading industry experts in a roundtable hosted by the Cornell Institute for Hospitality Labor and Employment Relations.

Hotelies and ILR students see arbitration come to life in NYC
With support from CIHLER, students from the Hotel School and ILR traveled to NYC to observe an actual arbitration hearing.

Roundtable Recap: How Trump administration will affect labor laws and regulations for hospitality
Professor David Sherwyn explores how the Trump administration might affect labor laws and regulations, especially in the hospitality industry.